Courtemanche, Gil

A Sunday at the pool in Kigali / Gil Courtemanche ; translated by Patricia Claxton - 1. ed - Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada : Distributed by Random House of Canada , 2003. - 258 p. ; 23 cm.

"The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a motley group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates and prostitutes. Among these patrons is the hotel waitress, Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a foreign journalist." "As the two slide into a love affair and prepare for their wedding, we see the world around them coming apart as the Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people begins. Tensions mount, friends are brutally murdered and unbridled violence takes over. Gentille and Valcourt attempt to flee the country to safety but are separated - and it will be months before Valcourt learns of Gentille's shocking fate."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rwanda----History----Civil War, 1994----Fiction

PQ3919.2.C627 / D5613 2003

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